Moral Foods by Angela Ki Che Leung, Melissa L. Caldwell, Robe... - 9780824888428

Moral FoodsThe Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia\nAuthor(s): Angela Ki Che Leung, Melissa L. Caldwell, Robert Ji-Song Ku, Christine R. Yano, David Arnold, Francesca Bray, Melissa L. Caldwell, Jia-Chen Fu, Tae-Ho Kim, Angela Ki Che Leung\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824888428, 978-0824888428\nSynopsis\nMoral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection's focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside As.